RIP Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

[EdgeleyRob]

Sad news,another who seems to have been around for as long as I've been listening to music.
RIP.

[Roslynmuse]

One of my favourite discs is his recording of Mendelssohn's complete Midsummer Night's Dream music - magical.

[bluestateprommer]

Several US orchestras have put up tribute pages to RFdB, such as:

The Philadelphia Orchestra: http://www.philorch.org/blog/news/ce...beck-de-burgos

Boston Symphony Orchestra: http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/featur...de-burgos.aspx

The Saint Louis Symphony had some short blogs posts about him, one on the day that he announced formally his retirement just last week:

http://www.stlsymphony.org/blog/index.php/2014/06/maestro/

And this very short post after his death that mentioned his last concert there: http://www.stlsymphony.org/blog/inde...eck-de-burgos/

This is all the more striking when you realize that RFdB did not have a formalized position (e.g. principal guest conductor) with any of these 3 orchestras. He had a short "artistic advisor"-like affiliation with the Cincinnati Symphony in the interregnum between Paavo Jarvi and Louis Langree.

[umslopogaas]

So, yet again the reminder that as it comes to others, so it will come to me. I had no idea whether he was alive or dead, but I treasure his recordings, particularly 'Carmen' with Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers and Mirella Freni. Phew, what a cast! Be at peace, RFdB.

[amateur51]

Sad news indeed although he did look rather poorly recently. I recall vividly his exciting 'live' performance (with Philharmonia at RFH I think) of Carmina Burana and Rite of Spring (his head seemed to be dull purple for a lot of the performance)

On CD I'd praise his Carmen and his was the first recording of Mozart Requiem that I heard and which I listened to endlessly on cassette Walkman walking to and from Land's End during a Summer holiday.



Many thanks, Maestro

[Stan Drews]

I remember two smashing concerts from the mid 70's when he brought the Montreal orchestra to Edinburgh (pre Dutoit days). We'd* only bought tickets for the first evening but went immediately to buy for the second night.


(* Is now a well-respected international conductor.)